Teri’s Tales

No Reason

Wednesday mornings I read the Port Townsend Leader online. I remain loyal to the Pacific Northwest, especially Port Townsend, mainly because of the heart felt friends that I made during my stint living there 15 years ago. A peninsula on a peninsula, like where I live today in southern Marin, Port Townsend is a quaint […]

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We Try to Live

Desperate times call for desperate measures—American proverb A proverb is a lesson which is handed down generation to generation in hopes that some of life’s pain and suffering may be spared for those who have heard it well. “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” I recall this old saying as having a political overtone and […]

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Dalai Lama and Donald Duck

My work is dealing with the remote—-worldly destinations, unique activities and cultural adventures.  Although you may visit the same country as another person, even the same city, an experience will never be the same as someone elses.  A watermark of the familiar is met with ambivalence when we are half way around the world.  But […]

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Yozakura

I have always been intrigued with Japan, its art, its theatre and its literature.  A fellow traveller I once met told me that after many journeys to Japan he had learned that it is not what is told in Japan that matters but what you can read between their lines.  Moku hanga, woodblock printing with […]

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Words on Paper

We’ve all heard the phrase, “life is what happens while you’re making plans”.  Many of us may be thinking “the only things you can be sure of are death and taxes” this time of year.  Nonetheless, we can analyze events anyway we want, arrange and rearrange words on paper creating poems, short stories or even […]

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The New Year

  Anyone that I talk to agrees that this past winter has been an exceptionally long one.   Coming out of a second record breaking cold spell where freezing temperatures hit sea level in February is a telltale sign.   I can’t help but think only days before Losar or Tibetan New Year, how life goes on […]

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Impermanence

No trip is complete to my elderly parents in Florida without my Italian father’s reference on the second day to the “gray metal box” hidden deep in his closet.  This is not just any box but a symbol of his life’s achievements along with instructions about his last wishes when he passes on.  Many years […]

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The Mountain

One night, after New Years and before the days are long enough to call it spring, I curl up in my oversized chair with my kitties and watch Lost Horizon, the 1937 version with Ronald Coleman and Sam Jaffee.  For those of you who may not have seen this film, Lost Horizon is a story about […]

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